We’re just a couple of wild & crazy, wine-lovin’ Xploradors- with hopes of Xploradoring Chile! Xplorador Wines is hosting the “Experience the Harvest 2010” Sweepstakes, with a chance to win an amazing trip to witness the grape harvest in the heart of Chile’s wine country, and as Dan and I Read more…
Wine-Ophelia, a great blogspot.com Blog I follow, is having a contest I just HAVE to enter (and will be Tweeting about, from @elkhorninn, augmented by #cheapwinechallenge): the “Twitter Cheap Wine Challenge” Given that the vast majority of wines we drink and serve at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre are what Read more…
We came back from our mini-getaway at Glade Springs & Winterplace just at the start of Another snowstorm, and woke up in the morning to be greeted by cardinals and songbirds too numerous to count at the feeders right outside the Elkhorn Inn’s dining room window! It’s been non-stop bird-watching, Read more…
Just came back from a WONDERFUL 2-night mini-getaway, skiing at Winterplace & staying at the Glade Springs Resort in Daniels, WV. I must say that outside of the Elkhorn Inn, the Glade’s restaurant at Glade Springs has THE finest food we’ve ever eaten in West Virginia! Chef Dexter Burgess created Read more…
New year, new snow! As I write this, the Pocahontas RR is chugging by the Elkhorn Inn- again! It’s been a fab few days for railfans since New Year’s, with almost non-stop trains and pushers going by! It’s also been Wicked Cold here lately- at the moment it’s a “brisk” Read more…
I write this at the beginning of what is evidently going to be THE SNOWSTORM of the last 7 years. It is Seriously Snowing, as you can see from my “Pokey-in-the-snow” pix, and Weatherbug’s been chirping madly on my computer warning that we are due for 12-20 inches before Sunday Read more…
Last night (Dec 2, 2009) wonderful Dreama Denver (Denver Foundation, Little Buddy Radio, etc.) did the drawing for the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre’s “Facebook Fan” Sweepstakes winners, and Elisse (me) announced the winner of the Elkhorn Inn’s “Marketing Buzz” contest at Gary Bowling’s House of Art in Bluefield, and BluefieldView Read more…
Today Chef Dan made his magnificent fresh-oregano-stuffed turkey, with an incredibly crispy herb-and-smoked-sea-salt rubbed skin, and we had it with “Saffire”, a crisp, dry white wine from our trip to AmRhein Winery in Virginia earlier this year, and it was wonderful! With it we had our garden-grown potatoes, mashed with Read more…
After our happy Railfan couple left the Elkhorn Inn on Saturday morning, Dan & I had a “foodie” weekend! My box of wonderful fresh produce arrived from www.TastePadThai.com (2 gorgeous green mangoes, fresh lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, & thai chilies, among other things!), & I cracked open Mai Pham’s Read more…
It’s “that time of year” again- The $#&%!! Festive Season- and so one’s mind turns (whether one wants it to or not) to… Shopping! This blog post is Totally about shopping, and includes a few products & merchant’s I’ve come to love… In the last 7 years- since we moved Read more…